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Success for CollegeIn today’s society having a college degree is a necessity. Many years ago, people graduated from high-school, and then acquired a full-time job. However, now one must have a college degree to get a decent job. Staying focused, managing one’s time, and maintaining a high energy level will help one succeed in college courses. College students need to stay focused to ensure success at the next level. One needs to create a space that is quiet and has no distractions. Pick a place with no television, radio, or anything that will get ones attention. This will allow students to concentrate. Knowing when to study is a valuable part of learning. Students need to establish a routine of daily study habits. As students study, they need to take breaks. Studying for several hours at a time is not a great idea. Students need to break down studying into methods that are easiest for them. Students need to set academic goals, and once the goals are achieved reward themselves. Managing your time is one of the first things a college student must do. One must learn to stay organized and learn to decode one’s priorities. When decoding one’s priorities, for example, it would be a better idea to complete a project for class rather than go to a nightclub with friends. A student needs to purchase a planner or calendar. A planner is the best way for a student to keep all assignments in order and be well organized. The use of a planner is a huge tool for one’s success. Students need to always be prepared for class or homework assignments. Another key to achieve success in college is to make sure one stays healthy. A routine sleeping schedule is an important part of one’s success. This allows you to keep a sharp mind on one’s studies. Proper exercise is a vital part of being a successful college student. Walking once a day increases your memorization skills, which helps one study better. Also, a healthy diet contributes to a college student’s success. Learning how...

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...that, the most un-responsible person can become a successful college student in today world; but without personal responsibility you have no self-meaning because everyone is responsible for the actions and decisions they make. Personal responsibility to me is the first step in becoming successful and without personal responsibility you are setting yourself up for failure in college and life.
Lorii (2013) once said that;
The power behind taking responsibility for your actions lies in putting
an end to negative thought patterns. You no longer dwell on what went
wrong or focus on whom you are going to blame. You don't waste
time building roadblocks to your success. Instead, you are set free and can
now focus on succeeding. (p .1)
Personal obligation, relates to study skills, is taking charge of one’s own learning. It implies completing assignments on time, studying for tests, taking the responsibility for one’s own learning mistakes or failures, and performing to the best of one’s ability. Personal responsibility recognizes the importance of parents and teachers as learning partners but puts the student in charge. ("Personal responsibility", n.d). Without personal responsibility you will not have success. Becoming a successful...

...Persist:
Academic freedom: means that professors has the right to teach controversial issues, topics, subjects, pieces of literature etc;
Self-Management, ethics: Making professional or personal ethical decisions usually involves 3 factors:
1. Law
2. Fairness
3. Conscience
Making mature decisions- integrity is purely and simply making decisions about what is right and wrong according to your personal code of ethics and social behavior.
Helpful tips:
• Determine what it is going to take for you to persist and succeed in college.
• Practice self-responsibility
• Guard your ethics and integrity and display civility and personal decorum on campus
• Know the policies and rules of your college.
• Establish a relationship with your professors, advisors, and counselors.
• Join a campus club and get involved
• Determine if you have the time to take an online class.
• Make use of student services.
LEARN:
Learning is a cognitive mental action I which new information is acquired or I which you learn to use old information in a new way. Learning can be conscious and/or unconscious. Learning can also be formal (schooling) and informal (street knowledge).
HISTORICAL LEARNING THEORIES
Socrates the Socratic Method: 300 BC learning by asking questions
Plato (student Socrates) Dialectic Method: believing a conversation on a topic and having a dialogue with “an expert” on the other side. He believed that through this back and forth...

...﻿Marcus Torres
Eng 350
Gai
Essay 1
Success in College
Do you know what the feeling of success in school feels like? Like getting a good grade on a test or even a paper you wrote that you thought you didn't do so well on. A lot of the times I think that when you succeed you want to show and tell everyone what you've accomplished. The feeling is great and it makes you want to keep working harder and succeeding in everything you do not just school. Going to College of the Redwoods has made me want to work harder and achieve my goals to be successful. Its showed me what it takes to be successful but there's other things that are also a factor to my success. I believe that my chances to succeed in college will be determined by the people in my life, values, and opportunities given. My success is determined by the people in my life that I cherish, my positive values, and making the most out of my opportunities.
First of all, I believe that my success will increase with the people I have in my life and the many values I have set for my future. Having supportive family affects me in a positive way greatly. Showing my family what I have accomplished even as simple as getting a good grade on a test shows me my success to them is great. With everyone always thinking positive and telling me good job encourages me to keep working hard. In addition,...

...high-achieving high-school seniors in the bottom quarter of family income went to one of the 238 most selective colleges, compared with 78 percent of students from the top quarter (Markell). Certainly, these numbers show that students that come from low income families aren’t getting the opportunities that they deserve. With college costs going nowhere but up, students from low-income families face tough decisions. Some students choose to attend community college while some make the decision to take out additional loans. There are also those who choose to drop out because they can no longer sustain the cost of college. Those who don’t have the money to go to a selective college are often not reaching their full potential. Therefore, college cost should be lowered so that more people can have the opportunity to get higher education.
Such a push is needed; firstly, due to the continuous rise in tuition, higher education is becoming less and less affordable for low-income students. According to the Journal of College Admission, from 1982 to 2007, college tuition and fees increased by 439 percent, while median family income increased by 147 percent. Last year, the net cost at four-year public universities amounted to 28 percent of median family income, while a four-year private college or university consumed 76 percent of median family income...

...Skills That Are Important For CollegeSuccess
University Of Phoenix
Gen 300
Skills For Professional Development
It seems in the society we live in today, having a college degree is a necessity. Years ago it was the norm for people to just go right into a full time job after high school, if they even finished high school; they did this to support their families. In today's society a person has a difficult time getting a decent job without a college degree. During an adults working life, bachelor degree graduates will earn about $2.1 million and a high school graduate can expect to earn an average of $1.2 million (Day and Newburger, 2002). This is quite a difference and it puts a college education in perspective. With college come the skills needed to be successful.
Every student who enters into a college level program needs to bring some very useful skills with them. The first is the maturity to know that college isn't high school and the discipline level needs to be higher. The classes on a college level are more demanding and require a whole laundry list of skills. To accompany maturity would be critical thinking skills. According to Keys to College Studying a Lifelong Learner chapter 4, "critical thinking is thinking that goes beyond the basic recall of information". The college student needs to...

...Personal Responsibility and CollegeSuccess
Personal Responsibility and CollegeSuccess
Did you know that people with a degree are earning significantly more than people with only a high school diploma? According to Gifted Child Today (2010):
The average income for someone employed full time with a bachelor’s degree was 65% higher than for someone employed full time with only a high school degree. Over a lifetime, someone with a bachelor’s degree can earn 75% more than a high school graduate can expect to earn—$2.1 million compared with $1.2 million. Moreover, more jobs for the future will require some type of postsecondary education (pg. 8).
The problem here is that many students start their postsecondary education, and never finish because of different factors. Commitment to earning a postsecondary education through personal responsibility is an important combination of knowing the goals, understanding the obstacles, how to overcome them, and building a plan to be successful in college.
Personal responsibility is to make decisions and be accountable for the outcome, whether good or bad. Merriam-Webster’s Learning Dictionary (2013) defines responsibility as “to do something on your own responsibility is to do it without being told to and to accept the blame if it has a bad result.” The best way to define your own personal responsibility is figuring out your weaknesses by being honest with...

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Personal Responsibility and CollegeSuccess
Gen 200
September 27, 2013
Robert Loscko
Personal Responsibility and CollegeSuccess
Personal responsibility can mean so many different things, depending on the individual. Personal responsibility means taking care of myself, family, community, and collegesuccess. Possessing personal responsibility means that as an individual he or she is responsible for their own actions and accept the consequences that come from the actions and the way it affects his or her lives. Intrinsic motivation is the key to personal responsibility. Personal responsibility and collegesuccess go hand in hand. If students fail to have personal responsibility it can have a detrimental affect on their schooling that could cost them tons of money and dissatisfaction that could lead to the individual not completing his or her educational goals.
To succeed in college one must have an attitude of personal responsibility. Personal responsibility comes from within, intrinsic motivation. Each person has an attitude and motivation that exerts his or her need for personal responsibility. The motivation comes from the satisfaction in completing the task rather than outside rewards such as grades. According to the journal article, A Study of University Students’ Motivation and Its Relationship with...

...CollegeSuccess Depends on You
Gen/200
CollegeSuccess Depends on You
The student is the only one who can dictate success with his education because the only thing keeping him from receiving an A in any class is himself. Personal responsibility means a person is the only one who directly can manage the outcomes of that person’s life. With education, no matter how much effort the people around the student puts toward helping him with his education, at the end of the day, he is still responsible for completing his own work.
What Personal Responsibility Means to Me
A person is responsible for his own self in his life after he is able to think and act for himself. A child’s parents will be responsible for him until he is eighteen, but honestly, from the time he is able to think for himself, he is the one who is ultimately responsible for his actions. To be responsible means the person will own his actions no matter the outcome. A person who is in control of his own responsibility can do anything he puts his mind to because he knows he controls his life.
Relationship of Personal Responsibility and CollegeSuccess
While attending college, a student has a large amount of different resources at his disposal, but he is the one who actually has to use them. For example, his family and loved ones are here to support him during his college...